p. 157 | FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 9, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 10.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

BRETHREN J. H. and J. M. Pogue, of Minnesota, have gone to Bermuda to open up the canvassing work.

AS FAR as heard from, good spiritual results were experienced during the week of prayer, December 17 to 25.

IT has been decided to hold a canvassers' school in this city, beginning on the 10th inst., and continuing two months.

ELDER B. J. CADY and wife, of Wisconsin, arrived in this city on the 28th inst., destined to accompany the ship Pitcairn on her next missionary journey.

BROTHER F. L. MEAD, general canvassing agent, closed his institute work in this city on the 26th inst., and left for Los Angeles the following day, to conduct a similar work.

OUR sisters in Washington, D. C., who have been contributing spare time and dimes to the worthy object, have sent to the Orphans' Home at Battle Creek, Mich., a large box filled with blankets, quilts, and wearing apparel, amounting in value to about forty dollars.

ELDER E. E. MILES, district canvassing agent of District No. 1, who has had a varied experience, says that "the busiest men, men who have their hearts and heads and hands full already, are the ones who will take hold of an extra job most readily, and who will do it the quickest." This in a measure explains why some people are overloaded with work, while others seem to have nothing to do.

OUR brethren in the mission at Hamburg express heartfelt thanks to God for their complete immunity from the cholera, which during the fall months did such a disastrous work in that city. And truly their brethren elsewhere rejoice with them. "Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." Ps. 91:9, 10.

THE American Sentinel, 43 Bond Street, New York City, has entered upon its eighth year of publication. It has done a noble work for the cause of religious liberty, and grows stronger as the cause it advocates becomes more threateningly menaced by the inflowing tide of Church and State union and its inevitable consequence, religious persecution. It is already seeing the marked fulfillment of predictions made in its columns in the past, and the publishers are thus assured that the lines on which it is conducted are correct. The Sentinel will be especially interesting and valuable during the present session of Congress, and should be widely circulated. Eight pages; issued weekly; $1.00 a year.

MEN sometimes do good when they try to do evil. We have an instance in Talbot County, Maryland, of a Methodist minister publicly advertising a book which he really desired to squelch. Here is his notice:—

"The undersigned, with the fear of God and the public good before his eyes, would call the attention of all Christians, whether Protestant or Catholic, that there is a man in Talbot County seeking to sell a book called "Bible Readings for the Home Circle," and he is also talking against the observance of the Lord's day. The book is in the interest of the Second or Seventh-day Adventists. Christians, beware of his craftiness and book. Yours, J. D. LECATES, Pastor of the Tilghman M. E. Church."

We hope that the canvasser will appreciate the good fortune of having even an enemy go before him to advertise his work. But it does seem strange to hear a professed minister of the gospel warning his neighbors against "Bible Readings for the Home Circle." A true minister would encourage such reading.

SISTER LOTTIE MULLIN, Cottage Grove, San Jose, Cal., desires late copies of the SIGNS and American Sentinel for missionary work.

SISTER E. J. HUTCHINSON says of the church at Parkersburg, West Virginia: "Nearly every member has subscribed for a copy of the American Sentinel for three months, to send to someone not in the truth; and some are making a house-to-house canvass for it."